Thanks for the info folks, it's what I expected but I just wanted to verify
that this is not possible.
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:33:29PM +0200, Simon Breden wrote:
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> If multiple snapshots reference (own?) the same file, what's the quickest
> way to zap that file from all snapshots?
There is no way.
If you could do that, then they wouldn't really be "snapshots".
I'm not saying that the abili
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:33:29PM +0200, Simon Breden wrote:
> Thanks Darren, that's good to know.
>
> If multiple snapshots reference (own?) the same file, what's the quickest
> way to zap that file from all snapshots?
There isn't a way to do that at all, not short of deleting the actual
snapsh
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:02:01AM -0700, Marc Glisse wrote:
> Can't you turn the snapshot into a clone (kind of an editable
> snapshot)? Or does the existence of a clone created from this snapshot
> prevent from removing the snapshot afterwards?
You can create a clone from the snapshot, but it do
Can't you turn the snapshot into a clone (kind of an editable snapshot)? Or
does the existence of a clone created from this snapshot prevent from removing
the snapshot afterwards?
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Thanks Darren, that's good to know.
If multiple snapshots reference (own?) the same file, what's the quickest
way to zap that file from all snapshots?
I say 'own' because apparently the original file system that the snapshots
were created from, has been deleted, apparently, if I understood the ini
Simon Breden wrote:
> OK, I understand.
>
> I don't think it's possible though, as snapshots are read only, as far as I
> know.
> If you like voodoo you could try going into the .zfs directory, then into the
> snapshot directory and see what you can do there, but I wouldn't try it, as
> it migh
OK, I understand.
I don't think it's possible though, as snapshots are read only, as far as I
know.
If you like voodoo you could try going into the .zfs directory, then into the
snapshot directory and see what you can do there, but I wouldn't try it, as it
might be possible to do harm that way.
See, that's the problem. I don't want to delete the entire snapshot, I just
want to remove a particular file from the snapshot.
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>From my understanding, when you delete all the snapshots that reference the
>files that have already been deleted from the file system(s), then all the
>space will be returned to the pool.
So try deleting the snapshots that you no longer need. Obviously, be sure that
you don't need any files r
This is a common problem that we run into and perhaps there's a good
explanation of why it can't be done. Often, there will be a large set of data,
say 200GB or so that gets written to a ZFS share, snapshotted and then deleted
a few days later. As I'm sure you know, none of the space is returned
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